EUGENE – Kenya's Jonathan Kiplimo Sawe dominated the final lap to win the men's 1,500 meters Thursday night at the IAAF Junior World Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field.

Sawe pulled away from a pack of four on the final curve to pull out a comfortable win, his time a season's best 3 minutes. 40.02 seconds. Djibouti's Abdi Waiss Mouhyadin took second, more than a second behind Sawe.